Saturday, October 15, 2016

European Tour investigating reports of rocket

attack in Turkish holiday resort of Antalya

European
Tour officials are urgently investigating reports that the southern
Turkish holiday resort region of Antalya was hit in a rocket attack on
Friday.
Turkish media reported that two rockets were fired from a
mountainous area close to the highway linking the city of Antalya to the
resort town of Kemer.
No one was killed or injured in the attack,
which apparently targeted a fuel tanker but instead hit a fishing
company's storage house and open ground nearby.
The Turkish
Airlines Open, the first of the European Tour's lucrative Final Series
events, is scheduled to be held at the Regnum Carya Golf and Spa
Resort in Antalya from November 3-6.
Former world No. 1 Tiger Woods was due to play in the event before shelving his planned comeback from injury, leaving four-time major winner Rory McIlroy as the star attraction in the £5.7million tournament.
A
spokesperson for the European Tour said: "As a matter of priority, we
are currently investigating today's incident in the Antalya region with
our security consultants and local authorities. We will update further
as soon as possible."Turkey has been rocked by a wave of bomb
attacks since last summer that have killed hundreds of people and been
blamed on either the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) or the Islamic State
group.